A Swedish couple has built a platform for virtually trading 21 of the hottest companies on the Web, including Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Amazon and and Groupon.
Gigapie launched today, with Facebook priced at 200 credits, or $20. Flickr is 100 credits. AOL is 110 credits. Prices are based on demand for the company and the amount of traffic it…
Greystripe is best known for converting ads from Flash to HTML 5 for display in native apps across its advertising network. The service was wildly popular because it allowed ads to engage consumers with animation, touch interactivity and click-through actions on Apple’s Flash-free devices, which were dominating the mobile market.
The mobile market…
Twitter is usually described as a social network or a microblogging service that evolved from the simple concept of group text messaging. But the company’s mission has crystallized after about four years, and social networking and discussion are no longer central to the value proposition.
Instead, Twitter is increasingly about news, content and…
We were hoping Twitter would announce some improved functionality for lists at its event today, which it did not, but we did find out about this new third-party Twitter app.
One of the things Twitter founders emphasized today was that it’s okay to use Twitter to passively consume content, which is where lists become really useful. Lists have…
Location Labs, which provides tools for developers building and monetizing location-based services, is announcing a partnership that will add another dimension to what advertisers know about mobile users. By tapping into the database of 15 million carefully categorized businesses maintained by Citysearch and other CityGrid Media properties…
Users who want to advertise what they’re watching and share recommendations for TV shows and movies with friends have plenty of choices. Apps and mobile sites including GetGlue, TV.com Relay, Philo, Miso, etc. all hope to siphon conversation about TV, movies and even books and music from social networks like Twitter.
But there seems to be…
Videos come in different sizes, resolutions and aspect ratios; the problem is, so do screens. Try to watch a video shot in a boxy 4:3 width to heighth ratio on your 16:9 HDTV, and things are going to look a little stretched out. Alternatively, you can have your 4:3 image appear in the middle of your 16:9 screen with black margins on the side or…
Gist.com is a database of dynamic, information-rich user profiles that can be accessed via the Web or inside your email or other communication-management tool, or on your mobile device.
The database is populated with the people who have signed up for Gist’s public beta and their contacts. There are 100 million profiles of people and companies…
Netherlands-based website monitoring company WatchMouse has created a public website dedicated to measuring performance at social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Del.icio.us, Digg, Xanga and Flickr.
WatchMouse also release uptime statistics for the top 20 social sites for the month of August. The leaders were…
People are still getting used to Google Instant Search, the format that displays search results as you type. But the idea has captivated developers and inspired a growing number of search engines that let you preview the results without having to press enter.
You can now try Instant Search for Twitter, Bing, Wikipedia, Flickr or iTunes, or just…
The tech industry’s rather extreme gender disparity comes up every once in a while. Most recently, an even-handed Wall Street Journal story prompted TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington to write that women are actually given preferential treatment and have only themselves to blame, which triggered a storm of commentary from all sides.
Much of that…
Americans spent more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google for the first time in August, and Yahoo edged out the search giant in monthly traffic, according to new data from marketing research firm comScore.
Users spent 41.1 billion minutes on Facebook in August, 39.8 billion minutes on Google, and 37.7 billion on Yahoo. Yahoo…
Republican congress members may have a big advantage in the run-up to the midterm elections. A full 72% of Congressional Republicans have at least one Twitter account, compared to 55% of Congressional Democrats, according to study released today by communications firm Burson-Marsteller.
Republicans also had 38% more followers on their…
Advertisers have long talked about the mystical possibilities of using real-time location data to target customers. The technology existed; most cell phones have a GPS receiver in case of emergency. But real-time location data was off-limits to advertisers until Web-centric phones introduced people to the concept of sharing their location in…
You can’t pay with your phone at the register yet, but you can use it to pay the babysitter. MoneySend, an application from MasterCard for sending and requesting money in informal person-to-person transactions, is now out in the BlackBerry App World.
MasterCard’s app lags significantly behind PayPal’s mobile payment app, available for Android…
Craigslist took down Adult Services in the U.S. four days ago, replacing it with the word “censored” without explanation. Advocates seized on the ambiguous move today, calling on Craigslist to remove the infamous section in cities across the world.
It’s hard to say what the effect of shuttering Adult Services will be on the profitability of the…
Google rolled out a new inbox last week that, in theory, separates your important emails from your unimportant emails and lets you speed through work faster.
Most of the initial reaction reflected users’ concerns as email recipients – excitement about reading email faster, worry about missing something urgent because Google didn’t think it was…
Authorities cracked down on file-sharing sites across Europe yesterday in a major operation two years in the making, Swedish officials told media.
The raid is getting special attention because one target in Stockholm is best known for hosting part of Wikileaks.org, the site where whistle-blowers have leaked highly sensitive documents from…
Mozilla announced Mozilla Labs Gaming today, a push to get developers to make use of new Open Web technologies to build “awesome games” that can be played in a Web browser.
The move was timed to coincide with the latest update to Firefox 4, now in beta development, which promises better graphics and a new application programming interface (API…
It’s always a little funny to me when I see “Find us on Facebook!” written on church marquees and signs on coffee shop counters. But the University of Kentucky has taken this real world hyperlink concept to the next level.
The school has built huge wooden sculptures shaped like Facebook’s teardrop pointer and map logo to remind students to check…